John Hoffoss wrote: > My gentoo laptop allows me to begin typing a command and use pg-up/pg-dn > to cycle through my history of commands that matches the typed pattern. > As an example, I can type "ls" and press pg-up and if the last list > command I did was "ls -la /etc/postfix" it will complete that for me. My > server does not do this though, it just types a tilde. (~) > > I can't remember if I altered my laptop to get that behavior or not, but > does anyone know where I might look to turn that on? not sure about gentoo, but under RH, Debian, and Slackware, /etc/inputrc sets up global key mappings. try /etc/inputrc or $HOME/.inputrc see also: man bash, specifically look for the INPUTRC section. -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list